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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (620158)	7/19/2011 4:19:01 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577915

>> Microsoft would not have gone far with their BASIC products. And they had nothing else. Well, that's technically not true; they did have other products at the time. However, it is exceptionally difficult to know what might have happened with MSFT w/o the IBM deal. I don't think they were dead meat. They were the backbone, weak as it was, of the small computer revolution. DEC had already made two runs at that business and failed miserably. History tells us that IBM could not adapt to the situation. One can envision a market of a couple million PCs running RPG.